Linearization of a Directional Modulation Transmitter Using Low-Complexity Cascaded Digital Predistortion

被引:8
作者
Chen, Long [1 ]
Chen, Wenhua [1 ]
Li, You-Jiang [2 ]
He, Yudong [2 ]
Li, Xin [1 ]
Cao, Tao [2 ]
Ghannouchi, Fadhel M. [3 ]
Feng, Zhenghe [1 ]
机构
[1] Tsinghua Univ, Dept Elect Engn, Beijing 100084, Peoples R China
[2] China Acad Engn Phys, Inst Elect Engn, Mianyang 621900, Sichuan, Peoples R China
[3] Univ Calgary, RF Radio Lab, iRadio Lab, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada
关键词
Nonlinear distortion; Predistortion; Radio transmitters; Linearity; Modulation; Peak to average power ratio; Cascaded; complexity; digital predistortion (DPD); directional modulation (DM); linearization; HYBRID MIMO; IMPLEMENTATION; MODEL;
D O I
10.1109/TMTT.2019.2921346
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
Directional modulation (DM) implemented at the transmitter side is a physical layer security technology based on the multi-antenna structure. Current DM methods paid little attention to the issue of the nonlinear distortion of power amplifiers (PAs), which may lead to poor amplifier efficiency and worsen the signal's error vector magnitude (EVM). For the first time, we consider linearization of a DM transmitter using the digital predistortion (DPD) technique. We modify the paralleled DM DPD model to a novel cascaded model based on the characteristics of the DM transmitter. This modified method applies a common DPD to mitigate the nonlinear distortion of all paths and an auxiliary DPD to fine-tune each path, so as to significantly reduce the complexity. In order to validate this idea, two-element uniform linear array (ULA) and four-element ULA experiments were performed, in which 16QAM 20-MHz bandwidth signals with a peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) of about 8.0 dB were generated for commercial part PAs. Experimental results show that the modified approach has almost the same linearization performance as the paralleled DM DPD technique but reduces the computational complexity significantly.
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页码:4467 / 4478
页数:12
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